Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22

logg. at Norfolk, Neb.
4. D. Tollefson: 1 live in Sioux City and
am an attorney. I know Juhl, or Peterson.
He came into my offic about November > last.
He then told me that at the time the shot was
fired that killed Haddock, he [Peterson] was
standing right on the corner by the cornlce
shop. .u oo,,,ool IN
the morning, instead OF $3.50, as usual.
SIXTEENTH DAY.
Court again reconvened and F. A. Almon
was called to the stand and testified as fol-
lows: live in Sioux City and have for three
years. I am q baker by trade. In August,
1856. 1 was living on Water street. I am ia
miliar with the Lone Star restaurant. L
boarded there last summer. The entrance ls
a double door which opens iuwardly. In Au-
gust there were screen doors which swing out
ward]v. The main door was about seven
inches from the outward verge Of the sill. The
screen doors were about three inches from the
outward verge of the sill The right hand
swung at that Tina. There was no shelter at
all in that door at that time. The upper part
of The transom WAS about even with the door.
There was no overhanging profession at all.
]. S. Browning, %testifies: l live IN Sioux
City and have for fonr years. am connected
with the Journal. / had an interview with
Paul Leader on January ) last. In that con-
versation Leader said to me that on the even
ing of the murder OF Haddock he became &C
qlaintcl with the news that certain parties
intended TO whia Haddock. He said SO in sub
stance. He said that when he reached the
Dineen corner he found u crowd of ten OR
twelve standing there. He said that he and
his companion edged their way around the
crowd and passed on to Water street. III sad
that he did not T. cosnizc the mar who fired
the shot sufficiently to tell who he was. l
can't recollect that Leader made any mention
Of the man wearing q rubber coat. There
was nothing said about u rubber coat. He
said that he understood that night thai the in
tention was 10 pound and whip Haddock.
Leader said that he and his companion learned
that Raddock was TO be whipped and they
watched the proceedings from an independent
position Of their own.
o. ii. jackson, recalled, ~tcstities that it is a
current report i'll the community at Lake Ben
ton that Schmidt attempted to sell the virtue
of his daughter for Il small sum Of money, and
for that and other denominations he was run
out OF that community.
James Stanley t%estilies: lam city marshal
years. 1 know the man Juhl,o alias
ps'srS9 The Sd saw Of NM November M N0f lsst.
He told me that at the time the shot was fired
store hetwe IL Pearl and Water streets, on
Fourth street. He said that he stood there
III order to get out of the rain. He said that
he was standing there while the buggy passed
by and that he staia there ten minutes; that
five or six men, passed by him going west
nized one OF the men who passed by him as q
mar whom he had seen at the brewery three
years before; that he had drank beer with him
at the brewery and knew him WELL. that the
moustache. I talked with Juhl in Murphy's
office on November g.. l was with Juhl there
twice. Stanley further t~estities that Juh
could not point ont the spot where Haddocl
was shot; that Juhl signed and swore to the
affidavit mentionedi in Justice Foley's evidence
Office on December 4. He was there twice
In the afternoon Stanley and Grimm were
there with him. Grimm was there to take
shorthand notes. Juhls said then that at thu
time the shot was fired he was standing in the
doorway of a grocery store.
2. H. Grimm t%estiies: I am a member Of
theb bar and have resided i'll Sioux City a veal
and o half. l know Murphy, City Marsha
Stanley, and Juhl, the witness. In November
1886, l saw Juhl in Murphy's Office and heard
a conversation there. I heard Juhl say at the
time the shot was fired he was standing by {
grocery store on Fourth s rect. Juhl said he
went over to where Haddock's body was lying
He said there was a pc iceman there when HI
reached the body. Juil said that when Ii.
got there tho people were saving that it wa
Haddock who was killed. He said that h,
hurried, after the shot, and got to the body il
a few minutes.
James Melon t%estifes: am Chief of 70
lice, and have lived in Sioux City seventee,
years. I first saw Juhl on December + last
I went with Juhl and Jack Ryan that day IL
the corner of Water and Fourth streets. Juh
pointed out at that tine as the place wher,
Haddock fell, a spot about midway on tn
crossing of Fourth street, north of the Din
cen corner. When Juhl was shown q spot be
tween the Dineen and Columbia House cor
ners, on Water street. an d asked if that WASH
the place where Haddock was shot and fell, Il,
said it was not. Juhl also that day said HI
was standing i'll the doorway of a seed stor,
on Fourth street. That doorway is east of tn,
alley on Fourth between Pearl and Waite.
streets on the north side. From that doorwa,
u person could not see Merrill's livery stable
A little while after Juhl showed me that door
way as the place where lie stood or that night
he took me west TO the Lone Star restauran
and said he was standing in the doorway O
the restaurant when the shot was fired. | wa
at police headquarters when the shot was fired
and about five minutes later l went down OF
the street. l saw no one standing near Lerch'
saloon or about there.
John l. Ryan testifes that there is IL
threshold projection on the outside of III,
screen on which anybody could stand and tina
the screens open outwardly; that Juhl pointed
out as the place where Haddock was shot
spot about midway on Fourth street, north O
the Dineen corner.
A. Mckenzie, recalled %tostifes: After tn
shot was fired / went out of police head
quarters immediately after Melon went out OF
the street and stood in front of Lerch's saloon
There was no one in front of the saloon.
went inside and there was no one there bu
Lerch and his bartender.
John Woodruff %testities: I was living las
August on West Third and Kansas streets
My house was the third house on the street be
yond the brewery. By entering the east doc
of the brewery one can pass out through III
engine house. The night of the murder 1 wa
sitting on a porch onthe eastside of my house
l could see right down to the railroad tract
and to the brewery yard III the west side o
the brewery. The electric light was burning
That night | heard tho shot fired while 1 wa
on the porch. A short time after the shot wa
fired 1 saw wom mon running. The two me,
came out from the brewery Somewhere an,
ran down tho track to the large house siandim
there. They crossed the street and trisd t
get into tho door of Strohmeier's lourdin,
house but couldn't do it. The electric lish